Genus NOVISPATHODUS Orchard, 2005

Type species and holotype. Neospathodus abruptus Orchard, 1995, pp. 118–119, figs. 3.23–24.

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Type stratum and locality. Jabral Safra, Oman .

Remarks. Te genus Novispathodus was introduced as a new genus with a 15-element apparatus by Orchard (2005) and revised by Goudemand et al. (2012b) based on the swapping of the S 1 and S 2 positions. Additional to the type species ( Nv. abruptus) and other species whose multi-element apparatus has been reconstructed (e.g. Nv. pingdingshanensis (Goudemand et al., 2012b), Nv. waageni (unpublished)), we tentatively assign also the following species to Novispathodus on the basis that they co-occur with S and M elements that are reminiscent of Novispathodus .